mysql_config

SYNOPSIS
       mysql_config options

DESCRIPTION
       mysql_config provides you with useful information for compiling your
       MySQL client and connecting it to MySQL.

       mysql_config supports the following options:

       o  --cflags

          Compiler flags to find include files and critical compiler flags and
          defines used when compiling the libmysqlclient library. The options
          returned are tied to the specific compiler that was used when the
          library was created and might clash with the settings for your own
          compiler. Use --include for more portable options that contain only
          include paths.

       o  --include

          Compiler options to find MySQL include files.

       o  --libmysqld-libs, --embedded

          Libraries and options required to link with the MySQL embedded
          server.

       o  --libs

          Libraries and options required to link with the MySQL client
          library.

       o  --libs_r

          Libraries and options required to link with the thread-safe MySQL
          client library.

       o  --port

          The default TCP/IP port number, defined when configuring MySQL.

       o  --socket

          The default Unix socket file, defined when configuring MySQL.

       o  --version

          Version number for the MySQL distribution.


If you invoke mysql_config with no options, it displays a list of all options
that it supports, and their values:

     --libmysqld-libs [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqld -lpthread -lz
                       -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lpthread -lrt]

You can use mysql_config within a command line to include the value that it
displays for a particular option. For example, to compile a MySQL client
program, use mysql_config as follows:

   shell> CFG=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
   shell> sh -c "gcc -o progname `$CFG --include` progname.c `$CFG --libs`"

When you use mysql_config this way, be sure to invoke it within backtick ("`")
characters. That tells the shell to execute it and substitute its output into
the surrounding command.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.

       This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
       modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
       published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

       This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
       but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
       General Public License for more details.

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       with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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       http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

SEE ALSO
       For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which
       may already be installed locally and which is also available online at
       http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.

AUTHOR
       Sun Microsystems, Inc. (http://www.mysql.com/).



MySQL 5.0                         05/29/2009                   MYSQL_CONFIG(1)